BOWERY LANE THEATRE, NoHo

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Passing by #330 Bowery on the NW corner of Bond a short time ago, I was marveling at the new paint job. I hadn’t seen something so purely white in a long time. Remember those Pepperidge Farm 3-layer cakes? They still sell them in supermarkets, and as a kid, I’d always gravitate toward the 3-layer [...]

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BRONX ARROWHEADS

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Plenty of archaeologists look for arrowheads, remnants of Native American populations of centuries before our own. At Forgotten New York I seek arrowheads as well — by which I mean the uneven six-sided signs installed throughout town that direct traffic to expressways or bridges — they were the GPS devices of their day. These signs [...]

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WOODHAVEN STATION, Woodhaven

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Construction began for the Long Island Rail Road between Brooklyn and Jamaica, and points beyond, in 1836. The railroad ran down the center of Atlantic Avenue, a major route running from the waterfront into Jamaica. At first, all service was at grade level on the surface, but by the early 1900s, a series of tunnels [...]

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METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 4

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PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its current [...]

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SAN MIGUEL BEVERAGE, Woodside

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I found the San Miguel Beverage Corporation on 39th Avenue in Woodside at just the right time. The sign, using ecclesiastical lettering or what, with a different design, is called “blackletter” on German documents, must have held forth on what is a bit of a Woodside backwater for several documents. The lettering is supposed to [...]

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STREET SIGNS, Richmondtown

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On my bus trips in Staten Island as a  kid in the early 1960s, I paid close attention to signage, lampposts, lamp fixtures, stoplights, and other things that 5-to-8-year-old boys of sound mind and healthy habits pay absoluteley no attention to. Before the mid-1960s, the favored variety of street signage in Staten Island consisted of [...]

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ROGERS PONTIAC, Borough Park

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I haven’t been in this stretch of Borough Park, at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 60th Street, for a year and a half at least, but I have always had a distinct memory of this somewhat imposing building on the SW corner. When I was a kid my parents and I used to go on excursion [...]

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CLAVER PLACE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Claver Place runs for two blocks from Fulton Street north to Putnam Avenue just east of Classon Avenue. Nothing really unusual about it… until you spot the small sign on the corner building at Fulton Street as FNY correspondent Gary Fonville did. The sign clearly reads…   … Ormond Place, and it can be correctly [...]

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The Hispanic Dental Association Awards Colgate-Palmolive Company with 2015 Corporate Legacy Award

 

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Hispanic Dental Association (H.D.A.) recently awarded oral care leader Colgate-Palmolive Company with its Corporate Legacy Award at its 2015 annual conference in San Antonio, TX for the company’s ongoing commitment to professional education and oral health equity among the U.S. Hispanic community.

A leading organization dedicated to the elimination of oral health disparities in the Hispanic community, the H.D.A. honored Colgate’s longstanding efforts to educate and support Latinos nationwide through community programs, bilingual educational information and advocacy around an often-overlooked, but important health issue.

“When the H.D.A. was forming in 1990, Colgate was our first corporate supporter and has been a steadfast partner over the past 25 years,” said David Pena, CEO and executive director of the H.D.A. “It’s vital to have support from a company such as Colgate to bring more Latinos into the profession, to educate families and to be on the ground in our communities providing dental care where it’s most needed. Colgate truly walks the walk.”

“Colgate believes in the H.D.A.’s mission and continues to innovate new ways to educate, empower and improve the oral health of Latinos nationwide,” says Dr. Marsha Butler, Vice President, Global Oral Care, Colgate-Palmolive. “We are honored to have received the Corporate Legacy Award and strive to leave a lasting legacy of healthy smiles for future generations.” Click here to read more

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Henry Schein Receives Hispanic Dental Association Corporate Award

MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, animal health and medical practitioners, announced today that it has been selected as the recipient of the Corporate Award by the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA). The HDA is a national, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization comprised of oral health professionals and students dedicated to promoting and improving the oral health of the Hispanic community and providing advocacy for Hispanic oral health professionals across the United States.

The Company was recognized for its decades of support of numerous initiatives to increase diversity and cultural competency in the oral health professions for the U.S. and global Hispanic communities, as well as for its commitment to promote access to care and health care equity worldwide. Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein, accepted the honor at the HDA’s 25th Annual Conference held last week in San Antonio, Texas. Click here to read more

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Crest® and Oral-B® Bolster Partnership with the Hispanic Dental Association to Improve Access to Oral Care Education Among U.S. Hispanics

Partnership Includes Exclusive Use of New HDA Stamp by Crest/Oral-B Over Next Two Years

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Celebrating its 25th Annual Conference this week in San Antonio, Texas, the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) is renewing its commitment with trusted partners Crest® and Oral-B® to together improve the oral health of the growing U.S. Hispanic population. Details of the exclusive partnership will be revealed during a reception on Aug. 14 honoring the winners of the HDA’s Orgullo Program, an annual competition sponsored by Procter and Gamble (P&G) oral care brands. Click here to read more

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CANDY STORE, Greenpoint

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Odd how I had missed out on this one, since I’m a candy store aficionado (though I limit purchases to once or twice  a year, lest I become a bigger man) but this Polish candy store had held down the fort at Meserole and Manhattan Avenues for several years and it was written up in [...]

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METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 3

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PART 1 | PART 2 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its current name. [...]

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ITALIAN-AMERICAN GROCERIES, East Williamsburg

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This store on Grand Street east of Bushwick Avenue has been closed for some years now, but its burgundy and beige storefront sign is still persevering; I estimate it’s no younger than 1950. Note that it was made in three pieces. You can’t see it too well but the building to its right wouldn’t look [...]

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CHAPMAN STATIONERY, East Williamsburg

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I have often wondered about the original purpose of this large, brick fortress-like building at the NE corner of Grand Street and Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, just west of the bridge that carried both Grand Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue across English Kills, a tributary of Newtown Creek.   I wonder no more, since seeing [...]

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DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, Flatbush

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Erasmus Hall, named for Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus, presents two historic buildings in one location at Flatbush and Church Avenues. Its white clapboard  Federal-style building, constructed in 1787, housed the private academy instituted by the Reformed Dutch Church across the street. The first class numbered 26 students. The older building isn’t visible from the street, [...]

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IRT MANHOLE COVER, Wakefield

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Bruner and Barnes Avenues meet each other just north of  239th Street.   At the point where the they meet, the entrance to the 239th Street/Wakefield yard awaits you. The location of this IRT manhole cover is just inside the 239th Street/Wakefield yard entrance, a yard or so from the security booth. Only MTA employees can [...]

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TRADITIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICES IN THE MODERN ERA: PROFILE ON JORGE D. ARRIOLA OF MASSMUTUAL

FORGOTTENTOUR #99: TRIBECA

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A wealth of interesting architecture, including cast-iron front buildings (many from the 1850s or earlier), and a picturesque pedestrian bridge, will be shown on this tour in a formerly sleepy part of town. There’s plenty of other artifacts like neon signs, compasses, preserved lampposts and plenty of history. WHEN: Sunday, September 27th, 12 NOON   [...]

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GARDEN PLACE, Wakefield

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Years ago, when FNY was just getting started back in 1999, I got word that there was a hidden street in the Bronx, unmarked on maps and by the Department of Transportation. The alley; known as Garden Place, was accessible only by an alleyway on White Plains Road south of East 240th Street. I went [...]

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St. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, Greenwich Village

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It doesn’t get a lot of ink in the guidebooks, but St. Joseph’s Church, at Sixth and Washington Place, designed by architect John Doran in 1833 (the date is prominent on the facing) is the 3rd oldest Catholic Church building in NYC (the Church of the Transfiguration, built on Mott Street, in 1801, and Old St. [...]

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SOZODONT AD, 51 East 42nd Street

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51 East 42nd Street is an 18th Century Beaux Arts office tower at the NW corner of East 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue that runs all the way north to East 43rd Street. Until December 2014, the ground floor hosted Manhattan’s flagship Modell’s Sporting Goods store. 51 will be meeting its ultimate demise soon, as [...]

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METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 2

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PART 1 | Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its current name. It [...]

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MAILBOX POLE, Maspeth

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Every so often while prowling around the lesser-known NYC neighborhoods (OK, who am I kidding, it’s usually only me that prowls like this, but I’ll stick with the phrasing) you may run a cross a pebbly concrete post with a date stamped into it (1930, here) and maybe even a couple of verdigris’ed bolts hammered [...]

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SHRINE OF ELIZABETH SETON, Battery Park

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Originally the James Watson House, the Shrine of Elizabeth Seton (the pillared building on the right side of the picture) was constructed between 1793-1806, making it one of the oldest buildings on the island, and was restored in 1965. Mother Seton was born on Staten Island and baptized Episcopalian, later converted to Roman Catholicism after [...]

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143 SPRING STREET, SoHo

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It’s arguable that 143 Spring Street, the 3-story Federal-style building at the corner of Wooster, is the oldest building in SoHo, as records show it was built in 1818, a year in which James Monroe was president, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, the modern design of the US flag was established, Brooks Brothers opened [...]

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BENSON STREET, Foley Square

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Benson Street, which runs between Leonard and Franklin Streets between Broadway and Lafayette Street, used to be one of Manhattan’s true rarities: a named dead end. While other cities in the northeast such as Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia have a plethora of midblock alleys, some of which are through streets and some of which are alleyways, [...]

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ROMOLO PLACE, San Francisco

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I visited San Francisco for a week in August 2008. I seem to find the heat waves — the usual weather is between 65 and 75 degrees in August, but it was in the 80s all week, even touching 90 one day. I was undaunted and got over 750 photos, most of which I’ll get [...]

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METROPOLITAN AVENUE, PART 1

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Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its current name. It runs from the [...]

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UNDER 6th AVENUE

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A friend was in the 34th Street BMT/IND station, which connects the R/N/Q lines, the B/D/F/M lines, and the PATH trains to New Jersey, and got this photo of a closed corridor apparently being opened up temporarily for station work. My initial feeling was that this was the so-called “Gimbels Passageway” that connected 6th and [...]

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BARTEL-PRITCHARD SQUARE, Park Slope

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Maps show there has  always been a traffic circle in this spot since the park opened, and the apartment buildings on Bartel-Pritchard were built along the gentle curves of  the circle. The square was named in 1923 for Emil Bartel and William Pritchard, two young Brooklyn natives who were killed in combat in World War [...]

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SUBWAY ENTRANCE, Prospect Park West

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The IND Subway connecting 6th Avenue, Manhattan and Church Avenue, Brooklyn, opened on July 1, 1933 (and was later connected to the Culver El in the 1950s). Along this line, some very interesting architectural “diversions” from the usual IND method can be found, like the elevated section (the only one built for the IND) taking [...]

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THE LITCHFIELD, Park Slope

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Near-insensate from this summer’s unrelenting heat, I sweated my way up 9th Street early in August 2015 to scout an upcoming tour when I spotted a gorgeous apartment house, one of many located along Prospect Park West facing the park. Just look at the recessed shady areas providing natural cooling in summer, and the entrance [...]

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